Five Stars

 I finished Intermezzo by Sally Rooney.  It had a good ending. 

It is the way it is written, more than any character development or plot that makes the book so interesting.  She treats their inner worlds differently: not complete sentences for Peter so he seems so jumpy and neurotic, while the other brother, Ivan, uses more complete sentences as do two of the women, Sylvia and Margaret.  The reader is very intimately involved.  It’s very present and compelling writing. Five stars 

Scoured cellulose

 The two things that make us human:

1. Language.  Being able to speak and write and communicate and that our writing lasts beyond our lifetime. 

2. Cloth.  

Richard Tuttle 

On the wall silk-linen.  In the basket, cotton and linen.  

But still …

 The truck was parked in front and the tail lights were on.  I noticed this when I went out in my nightie to put my studio bags there, beside the vehicle.  Then I walked uphill behind the house.  In my dream, instead of walking down to the lake I climbed a hill, like the one where we planted our garden 40 years ago when we lived near Thunder Bay.  From above, I turned and looked back. 

I saw Ned come out of the house and then I saw April come out too and I saw them have a brief hug and then she mounted her bike and left. 

I had no idea that she had come home.  She must have seen my studio bag by the truck.  She must have known that I was awake.  Why didn’t she speak to me?  How did this occur, that she and her dad had a secret meeting ? It was probably to discuss her car, but still.

Last night’s dream. 

Poem Blanket

I am trying to make tenderness come out.  Tenderness and the possibility of touch.   Isabella Ducrot

Not Thinking

To do:

Type up my new philosophy so that I can read about what I am not thinking.    Ha ha. 

tenderness

The focus of designing minimal quilts is to produce work that has been reduced to its essence - stripped down to its essentials.  Gwen Marston
 

Un-sewing

It’s dark now in the mornings.  

I just want to work in the studio, sifting through fabrics and projects and landing on something worthwhile.  Plunge in.        

Today I’ll start by ripping out the fancy stitches I started to put into this piece in the spring.  I’ll put a window hour into un-sewing.